Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There can be no question about it; Bob Hope is about the funniest comic the movies have had since the departure of Groucho Marx, and it will still take the Moviegoer a long time to get tired of him. His fertile mind and the rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...
Hollywood has found a sensational new comic of peerless proportions and undiscovered sex. He or she (nobody can tell) is a black-bodied, yellow-legged, orange-beaked Mynah bird named Raffles which has a positive genius for saying the wrong thing at the right time in an Oxford accent...
International politics is a seasonably safe ground for comic amity between nations. Block was the man behind Bob Hope's recent European gagfest and had a circus trying out his best Anglo-American jests. Hilariously successful sample...
...Hope, as well as all traveling celebrities, Block's prime job is to localize gags so as to take comic advantage of particular localities. Thus, when Hope referred to a North African native woman as "a Lister bag* with legs on," the boys in North Africa howled...
...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...